4A girls swimming: Three state records set Friday in prelims at EPIC in Fort Collins

On Friday in the Class 4A swimming and diving preliminaries at the Edora Pool Ice Center in Fort Collins, the times may not have seemed as fast as in past years, but don’t tell that to the likes of Hannah Driscoll of Niwot.

The senior finished the 50-yard freestyle in 23.60 seconds to overtake the 2013 mark of Evergreen’s Lexie Malazdrewicz by .13 of a second.

“I was just going to come out and leave it all in the pool and see what we could do,” Driscoll told BoCo Preps. “Our goal was just to come in here and have a lot of fun as a team, because the excitement is always high here … I always try to focus on how to swim it the right way. It’s all about relaxing and having fun.”
Windsor freshman Morgan Friesen had a record swim in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.28) and Lindsay Morrow of Evergreen set a state mark in the 100 back (55.63).

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.